Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present RACHEL LINDEN!
Writes:
I write stories about so many of my favorite things - strong women facing big challenges, delicious food, travel, and second chance romance, all with a touch of magical realism and a happy, hopeful ending! My newest novel, THE SECRET OF ORANGE BLOSSOM CAKE, is set on a gorgeous olive farm in Italy and is about three generations of strong women, a magical cookbook, and a lost recipe that can show you the happiest moment of your life. Oh, and a second chance romance with the hot olive farmer next door!
About:
I’m a novelist and humanitarian aid worker whose adventures in fifty countries around the world provide excellent grist for my writing. I live with my family and sweet pup Cosmo in a charming little harbor town in the Pacific Northwest where I enjoy growing dahlias and herbs, kayaking, camping, reading on the porch in the salty sea air, and cooking my way around the globe in the kitchen. I love a good book, a cold glass of bubbly, a brisk walk, and a smooth square of dark chocolate.
I’m looking a reader who loves stories with…
• Strong women facing big challenges in life
• A touch of magical realism
• Happy, hopeful endings
• Family drama
• Lots of delicious food
• Sweet, swoony closed-door romances with heat but no spice
• Charming settings like an olive farm by a lake in Italy
• LOTS of yummy food in the story
• Recipes related to the story that I create in my kitchen and include in my books
What to expect if we're compatible:
• I promise you…
• Relatable female main characters they can root for and empathize with
• Women facing big challenges who learn to embrace hope, courage, and connection as they grow
• A touch of magical realism and whimsy
• Hunky, emotionally intelligent love interests you’ll sigh over
• Romance that is sweet and swoony with heat but no spice (closed door)
• Gorgeous, immersive settings like a charming island in the Pacific Northwest or a lakeside olive grove in Italy
• Books that will make you hungry as you read them. Have plenty of snacks on hand!
• Always a happy, hopeful ending. Trust me!
A magical cookbook and a summer on her family’s Italian olive farm help a brokenhearted social media chef cook up a satisfying new life in this delectable novel from the bestselling author of Recipe for a Charmed Life.
Rising star Jules Costa loves re-creating vintage recipes for her popular online cooking show. But when personal and professional disaster strikes, her only chance to save her career is to complete her new cookbook before the end of the summer. Panicked, Jules returns to her family’s beloved olive farm on the shores of Italy’s stunning Lake Garda. Seeking culinary inspiration, she’s hoping to convince her spunky eighty-year-old Nonna Bruna to share her precious collection of family recipes.
Jules’s plans quickly go awry as she discovers that Nonna’s cookbook has magical and unpredictable powers. It reveals only one recipe at a time, offering a cooking experience guaranteed to satisfy the chef’s palate and bring clarity to their life. Yet the pages remain stubbornly blank for Jules. To make matters worse, the olive farm is in deep financial trouble, and Jules soon uncovers a web of family secrets involving the cookbook and a lost recipe for orange blossom cake that holds the key to everything. Then there’s Nicolo, the boy next door, who broke her young heart years ago. He is now all grown up, even more attractive, and the only person poised to help Jules find answers.
In a whirlwind summer beyond her imagination, Jules begins to unravel the mysteries baked into her family’s history and discovers the essential ingredients to create the future of her dreams.
Audiobook Narrator- Taylor Harvey.
Women's Fiction Family Life | Women's Fiction Friendship [Berkley, On Sale: September 30, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593816639 / eISBN: 9780593816646]
Family Healing with Delectable Food All Set in Beautiful Italy
Rachel Linden is the bestselling author of many novels including Recipe for a Charmed Life, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie and The Enlightenment of Bees. She loves creating stories about strong women facing big challenges, food, travel, and second chances at love…
Rachel’s taste for adventure and interest in people first led her to a career as an international worker with a faith-based aid organization, and her experiences living and traveling in more than fifty countries around the globe continue to provide excellent grist for her stories. She loves writing novels that combine so many of her favorite things – strong women facing big challenges, food, travel, and second chances at love. Rachel enjoys crafting bittersweet stories of struggles and triumphs infused with a touch of magical realism and with ultimately happy, or at least very hopeful, endings.
Currently Rachel lives with her husband and children on a sweet little island near Seattle. When she’s not dreaming up a new story, she enjoys camping with her family in their pop top campervan, exploring the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, eating sushi, and having grand adventures in far flung places.
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